The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Scientist role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Scientist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Scientist
Rank 222 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Scientist 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7204 9391 9776
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.56% 92.35% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3605 4218 4213
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 721 839
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Scientist across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Data Scientist Jobs Demand Trend

Data Scientist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Scientist within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire - 1 - -
Data Scientist
England

Data Scientist
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cluster Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pig

Data Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Data Scientist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Scientist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pig
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cluster Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) R
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk